Tehran’s embattled Jewish community endures despite Israeli bombing of synagogue Members of Rafi’ Nia synagogue braved airstrikes to celebrate Passover hours before it was destroyed

"The Israeli airstrike that destroyed a prominent synagogue in Tehran confirmed the fears of many Iranian Jews that Israel and Netanyahu don’t really care about their fate." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

frankly it is not my fault that many southern english and southern yiddish speakers say “fine” (פֿײַן) pretty much the same while many northeastern english and northeastern yiddish speakers also say it pretty much the same

The History of Jazz Has Instantly Expanded Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large.

Extraordinary, instantly canonical new albums of previously unreleased live recordings by Cecil Taylor, Ahmad Jamal, and Joe Henderson, now available thanks to Zev Feldman, Resonance Records, and Elemental Music: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Absolutely!

Thanks both for this. This report has thrown people I know into a tailspin. The horror of it is still so full and real and I wouldn't try to use this info any time soon out of it. But I'm glad to try and hold the context as they process. It's horrible.

Universe grant me the ability today of using my computer and staying on task. After this post and scroll of course...

It's growing beyond just the voters. The Philadelphia Inquirer endorsed @chrisrabb.com and a notable part of their endorsement is around this exact thing. As horrible as things are, tides are turning here and there...

Agreed!

Hell yes! It's important work.

One of the truest memes I've ever encountered...

to life! to life! l'chaim! l'chaim! l'chaim! to life!

i wish the yiddish translation of fiddler on the roof had been braver and just had the lyrics for To L'chaim be a completely faithful translation

l'chaim, l'chaim, l'chaim,
l'chaim, l'chaim, l'chaim

Wow! I was not expecting this in this race! Go Rabb!!

Much as I've loved songs from TMM at various times in my younger days, Im totally on board with this assessment,

900lb crates full of onions in a field

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

Yes! It's vital we use this exciting moment to make big welcoming onramps for intruiged and excited people to the wider worlds & communities that are waiting for them.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Wow, rarely have I seen a better names music event.

I have a lot of these with some real musical gems on them somewhere!

Tweet from Elon Musk: "*Soros Organization has taken over Hungary"

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Superlative West Philly magic day so far. 4 serendipitous un- or barely planned meetings. Scheduled a hang, planned a summer improvised music class, and borrowed some pro microphones for a recording project without having to leave a square block.

The South Philly author who hopes a billboard on I-95 N will make people rethink fatness and AI slop Emma Copley Eisenberg used a $3,000 settlement from an AI lawsuit to rent a billboard for six weeks. Not just to advertise her new book, "Fat Swim."

Hell fuckin yeah, @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social

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you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

A picture of a clavichord (Hamburg, 1763), a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

imagining an alternate timeline where "clavicular" is an adjective in reference to the clavichord

The freakin' best.

Hell yeah!

this is also so true! while "unc" is meant to signal that you're old, it's also a intended as a sign of respect from a young person to an older person, not a diss! it can be received with a cringe sometimes because well, no one likes to be called old, but it's supposed to be at least respectful!

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.